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$500,000 Vagina Tax! -Sarah Silverman Launches Equal Pay Campaign With Hilarious Video

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To kick off a new campaign calling for equal pay, Sarah Silverman says she's doing the only thing she can to ensure her wages won't be stolen just for being a women: getting a penis. Silverman is featured in a hilarious new video to help raise awareness for the gender pay gap in America. She explains that over the course of a lifetime, a woman loses about $500,000 to the wage gap. "That's a $500,000 vagina tax!" she explains. "That's why I'm taking matters into my own hands--I'm becoming a dude. In the grand scheme of things it's way less expensive than the money I'll lose for having a p*ssy. CAUTION: language. (As if you didn't know.)
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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